Date:         Wed, 14 Feb 1996 01:34:44 GMT
Reply-To:     r0a@NMDL01.NCOM.NT.GOV.AU
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         r0a@NMDL01.NCOM.NT.GOV.AU
Organization: Northern Territory University
Subject:      Plotting datetime format with truncated axis values.

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I am having difficulty in creating an axis which can be used in a gplot
where the time variable to be plotted is in DATETIME 19.2 format.
Because I am typically plotting a month worth of data, the DATETIMEw.d
format is not so useful as it has a minimum length of 7 and the values become
very
cluttered. I could rotate the values with
...  value=angle=90  ...............
 but this gives me less space for  graphing the values.
I must retain the  datetime value as there are multiple observations over
different hours of the day and if I were to convert them do date variables
the fine detail of hours etc would be lost.
Ideally , the axis would look something like this  although the month/year
could
be put elsewhere in a footnote/title/annotate etc.
 
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            01      02      03     04      05   .................      31
                       JANUARY 1996
 
Maybe I am looking at this from the wrong way and should be concentrating on
creating a format which would allow me to specify something like:
 
 /*Note: macro vars strtdt, enddt, mth already assigned.*/
 axis1 order=("&STRTDT.:00:00"dt to "&ENDDT.:23:59"dt by dtday)
       label="&MTH";
 
 proc gplot data=uuvmst;
      plot usrcpu*datetime=1   /
      haxis=axis1
      format datetime MYFMT.   ;
 
Any suggestions gratefully received!
 
Cheers,
Rob..  r0a@nmdl01.ncom.nt.gov.au